Jean Spranger

Jean-François Paillard has remained famous for his considerable Baroque and Classical discography but also made lesser-known yet beautiful renditions of later repertoire gather in this Romantic Landscapes collection.

World premiere performance: 5 May 2025, Barbican Hall with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler, with London Voices, The City of London Choir, singer Tom Ball and the ALAN team musicians including Matthieu Eymard. Digital album release: 2 May, 2025 on Decca Classics.

World premiere performance: 5 May 2025, Barbican Hall with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler, with London Voices, The City of London Choir, singer Tom Ball and the ALAN team musicians including Matthieu Eymard. Digital album release: 2 May, 2025 on Decca Classics.

Cathy Jean is an American Blues singer, songwriter and musician known for her powerful and soulful vocals. She has collaborated with many well-known local and national musicians. She has released several EPs and full-length albums, and has toured in North America and abroad. Jean has been nominated for three Washington Area Music Association (WAMA) awards. Cathy plays guitar, piano, violin and harmonica. Collection includes: Tear Me Apart (1996); I Want (1998); Marshall Road Apocalypse (2001); Little Sick Twist (2005); In The Remains (2010).

“An ode to silence” is how harpsichordist Jean Rondeau has described Bach’s Goldberg Variations. “I feel they were written for silence, in the sense that they take the place of silence,” he says.

After having won the Gramophone Award in 2014 for his recording of Prokofiev’s five piano concertos, exclusive Chandos artist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet here explores the complete works for piano and orchestra of another Russian composer of the twentieth century: Igor Stravinsky.

Born in 1875, Ravel was fêted during the 1920s and ’30s as France’s greatest living composer – a remarkable achievement considering the obstacles placed in his path by the ultra-conservative Parisian musical elite of his time. (Ravel was expelled from the Paris Conservatoire twice!). His unique musical style, combining classical form and impressionistic harmony, makes his work immediately recognisable.

Bach – Arrangements and Transcriptions – Official album release !
Jean-Baptiste Dupont, Cavaillé-Coll organ in St Sernin, Toulouse.